Tag: flight simulation

The latest version of the open source FlightGear flight simulator has been released.   Version 2.6.0 includes a number of improvements primarily in the handling of AI type aircraft, making load times faster as well as the CPU cost per AI aircraft much lower. FlightGear Version 2.6.0 is available for free download and is available for all of the Major computing platforms.  You can download the version for your machine from the FlightGear Website at: http://www.flightgear.org For information about the other…

Laminar Research, the producers of the X-Plane franchise of flight simulators, have released a new video highlighting their latest version of the product.  X-Plane 10 was recently released on the desktop for multiple platforms and they have been slowly implementing some of the new features into the latest mobile offerings as well. The video is two minute fifteen seconds long. While we wanted more from the video, it did show brief glimpses of what Laminar Research is doing and the…

Laminar Research announced the latest version of their X-Plan App for the iPad today.  The latest version, Version 9.750 adds a new suite of airplanes to the application in preparation for their rollout of their latest version, X-Plane 10.  The new planes included in the 9.750 update are: F-16 Falcon fighter, JA-37 Viggen Swedish fighter (don’t go Friggin’ with a Viggen!), P-38 Lightning WW-2 twin tail (the “fork-Tailed Devil”), P-40 Warhawk (black-sheep!), Piper Cub (tail-wheel classic!), Robinson R-44 (best-selling helo……